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Patented Nov. I6, 1880.:

N, PETERS. FHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. 11.04

llNirn STATES ATENT rrica,

CHARLES H. SHAW, OI TROY, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM S. EARL AND GARDNER EARL,OF SAME PLACE, AND XVASHINGTON WILSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUTTON-HOLE FOR CUFFS, 84.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,620, dated November16, 1880.

Application filed January 22, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. SHAW, of Troy, in the county ofRensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Button-Holes for Cuffs and other Articles, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates more particularly to button-holes for cuffs,collars, and other laun- 1o dried articles and it consists in embossingthe material along the sides of the button-hole in such Way as to renderit flexible and easier to bend aside in the insertion and removal of astud or button, also to enhance the appearance of the button-hole.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a cuffembodying my invention, showing material surrounding its button-holeembossed in different Ways 5 and Fig. 2 is a section of the same, takenat the plane of the dotted line 00 at, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in bothfigures.

The cuff A may be of any desirable shape or style and material,such, forinstance, as linen 5 and the button-hole may be of the usual straightshape, oversewed and stayed at the ends by crosssewing or cross-barring,if desirable. The material adjacent to the but- 0 ton-holes (but, asshown, opposite the sides only of the said button-holes) is embossed ordeflected out of line with the rest of the cuff. As shown, asemi-ellipsoidal portion, B, is thus embossed or deflected along eachside of 5 the button-hole, forming, as it were, flaps on each side ofthe button-holes. These flaps B are, owing to their deflection from thebody of the cufl', quite flexible. Hence they may be more easily bent.aside in inserting or remov- 0 ing a stud or button than the sides of anordinary button-hole.

In connection with most of the button-holes, the flaps or portionsadjacent to the buttonholes are both embossed or deflected outward;

5 but in connection with one of the buttonholes I have shown one flap orportion, B, embossed or deflected outward and the opposite flap orportion, B, embossed or deflected inward. The latter may afford thegreater facility for inserting or removing a stud or button, and hencemay prove the more desirable, but it is perhaps less ornamental Not onlyare button-holes with the adjacent material more easy to use and moreornamental in appearance than those of the ordinary kind, but they arethought to have advantages in interlocking the opposite edge portions ofthe cuff together when properly overflapped and to preserve a betterrelation be tween them. Moreover, the embossed por- 6o tions or flapsfill up the space between the front and back of a stud better, and hencehold it more effectually in its proper position. The embossing ordeflecting of the material adjacent to the button-hole may be done invarious styles, so as to produce various ornamental designs. If suchmaterial be embossed or deflected into corrugations the flaps of abellows-body construction will be produced, and such flaps Will be veryflexible, and consequently afford very great facility for the insertionand removal of a stud or button.

Any of the flaps or embossed portions may, to facilitate the insertionof a stud or button, be wetted with the tongue or otherwise to increasetheir flexibility, and wit-bout wetting the cuffs.

The embossing or deflecting may be done with dies or otherwisesubsequent to the laundrying and starchin g, but before the cuffs 8cdry; or the cuffs may be allowed to dry and may be remoistened andembossed or deflected in any suitable manner.

If desirable, the moist starch or other stiffening agent may beexpressed by means of por- 8 5 ous or perforated dies, or partially orwholly destroyed by an acid or otherwise, to render the embossed ordeflected material more flexible.

Laundrying or other machines of simple 0 construction suitable forembossing or deflecting the material adjacent to the button-holes may befurnished the purchasers or users of cuffs or other articles at littlecost.

While only illustrated in connection with 5 the button-holes of cuffs,my invention is applicable to collars shirts, and various other itssides embossed 0r deflected in the shape articles with good results. 7of semi-ellipsoidal flaps extending from end 10 What I claim as myinvention, and desire to end of the button-hole, substantially as and tosecure by Letters Patent, is for the purpose specified.

1. A button-hole having the material along CHAS. H. SHAW.

its sides embossed or deflected, substantially Witnesses:

as and for the purpose specified. R. H. VAN ALSTYNE,

2. A button-hole having the material along WVM. J. MACDONALD.

